Nonfiction

LOVE LETTERS TO EMOTIONALLY UNAVAILABLE MENBy Michelle Tin Part I. Wonderland I don’t trust you at all.This isn’t about why we broke up. This is about walks in the park. It’s mix CDs and Texas. It’s...

THE SPACE BETWEEN DARKNESS AND LIGHTby Cathy Beaudoin The truth is I’m scared. Meetings with auditors, lawyers, investment bankers, and other financial executives are a faded memory. The days occupied by pedological objectives, advanced accounting...

LOUD MUSICby Leslie Tucker   He is mournful and scornful, bellowing about love in vain, alternating a velvet baritone with a nasal whine. Thick, damp hair flops at his shoulders. His ivory-colored sequined jumpsuit, open to...

An old friend, a bond salesman, called me in Nashville that morning from the 68th floor of a high-rise in Lower Manhattan.He described the second jet, low and fast. His voice shook. I told...

Daddy was a civil engineer trying out to be a Fuller Brush Man. He'd bought a sales kit of samples—Fuller hairbrushes are guaranteed forever!—from the guy who would see if Daddy could sell door-to-door...

Into Africa I fly on a one-way ticket. Journey through fourteen countries in twenty-two months on local transportation. A woman without advantage of youth or money. Learning. Resting. Changing. The journey has many pieces....

OSCAR WILDE IN BOCAby Emanuele Pettener A few years ago I went to Mass, here in Boca Raton, Florida, where I live. Mass began and before the Gospel a distinguished lady went up to the...

ENTERTAINMENTBy Donald Dewey A friend asked recently if I had seen such-and-such a movie. I said no, and wasn’t really in that much of a hurry to see it. He looked at me wide-eyed and...

BETWEEN TWO HARBORSMemoirs of a Catalina Island HarbormasterBy Doug Oudin Doug Oudin, author of ‘Between Two Harbors, Reflections of a Catalina Island Harbormaster’ (his memoir), and ‘Five Weeks to Jamaica’, a seafaring novel, is a...

MS. MARYby Katie Ridlington The nursing home was a fantastic place of life and love, but eventually death. There were many little balls of sunlight that lived there, but the one who shone the brightest...